18 March 2014

The law firm Gulliksson is again ranked as one of the leading law firms in Sweden in the field of Intellectual Property Law by Chambers Global

The law firm Gulliksson is again ranked as one of the leading law firms in Sweden in the field of Intellectual Property Law by Chambers Global. Please find below an excerpt from the ranking guide. Founding partner Jonas Gulliksson covers the full spectrum of IP matters. Sources appreciate his approach, commenting: “He is always trying... Read more »

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14 January 2013

Lund office of Advokatbyrån Gulliksson Lund relocating

The removals are on the way to Ideon Gateway and the top terrace floor of the building The Lund office of the law firm of Advokatbyrån Gulliksson is moving 14 January to become one of the first tenants of the newest landmark in Lund, the Ideon Gateway. With the move, Gulliksson is solidifying its position... Read more »

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14 January 2013

Gulliksson’s office in Lund moves to Ideon Gateway

On January 14, 2013, we move our office in Lund to new premises at Ideon Gateway. The new visiting address will be Scheelevägen 27, 18th floor, SE-223 63 LUND, Sweden. Telephone, fax and post office box address remain unchanged. Welcome!

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19 December 2012

New senior advisor, former executive of Inter IKEA

Gulliksson Advocates has strengthened its position within international business development and business establishment by including Mr Hans Skalin, LL M, as external senior advisor. Hans Skalin has extensive experience from business development and international establishment of companies, foundation and other types of organizations throughout the world, not least from his position as group CEO and... Read more »

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19 October 2012

One of Ström & Gulliksson’s founders has deceased

Tore Ström, European Patent Attorney, LL M, one of the founders of the patent & law firm Ström & Gulliksson, has tragically passed away on October 15, 2012. Mr Ström was born on December 17, 1926 and graduated from Malmö Technical Gymnasium and started his career as a radio engineer at the radio station of... Read more »

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20 April 2012

The big picture leads to success

Affärsvärlden magazine’s latest issue, accompanied by a special commercial law edition (no. 1-2012) told the story of Doro, which went through a difficult period around the turn of the millennium, but found a profitable niche in the mobile phone market by concentrating on simple phones for senior citizens. Today, Lund-based Doro is a global leader... Read more »

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20 April 2012

Opinion from Gulliksson’s clients

Legal500 has recently written the following about the Law firm Gulliksson: ”IP boutique Advokatbyrån Gulliksson shows ‘business sense and integrity’, and represents IKEA, Doro, Tetra Pak and ICA. The ‘highly experienced’ Jonas Gulliksson and ‘fantastic litigator’ Mattias Malmstedt are representing ratiopharm in a patent litigation. Hans-Anders Odh recently won a trade secret dispute.” Legal500 is... Read more »

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22 September 2011

EU extends term of copyright protection for recorded music

With the extension, the rights to recordings from the 1960s will not become public domain and composers and musicians – or their survivors – will retain control over how their works are used. The move will involve no practical changes in Sweden, where copyright protection under Swedish law endures for the lifetime of the author... Read more »

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23 June 2011

New trademarks act effective 1 July 2011

Partial registration After the law comes into effect, a trademark application may be rejected for only part of the products and services covered by the application. Formerly, PRV rejected the entire application if there was any obstacle to registration for any product and/or service. Extended deadline for opposition Effective 1 July, parties who wish to... Read more »

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14 June 2011

Advokatbyrån Gulliksson won appeal in the court of patent appeals

The CUVÉE FORET trademark is likely to be confused with the Community trademark LAFORET and must be removed from the register. This was established by the Swedish Court of Patent Appeals (CPA) in a decision on 19 May 2011, when the Court thus accepted Gulliksson’s arguments in the appeal lodged in June 2009. Unlike the... Read more »

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9 June 2011

Bratz won the battle of the dolls

A conflict of several years between toy giant Mattel (Barbie) and MGA Entertainment (Bratz) now seems definitively over. The court found that Mattel had stolen trade secrets and has ordered them to pay millions in damages to MGA, according to the online edition of The Guardian. The bitter battle, which cost both companies millions of... Read more »

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17 May 2011

The David of invention can beat Goliath

One of the most prominent inventors in the UK, John Mitchell, picked up his slingshot in defence of his US patent on a speech recognition interface for computers – and won. Multinational Goliaths, including Dragon Systems, IBM and Dictaphone have entered into contracts on the right to use Mitchell’s ‘Allvoice’ patent. Now he is the... Read more »

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